"NOSE-BITING" CASE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, June 14. Thomas McKay, of the "nosebiting" case, was, to-day, bound over to keep the peace for six months, and to pay the costs of the trial. Mr Justice Williams said that the assault was committed under circumstances of considerable provocation, but the retaliation greatly exceeded any provocation offered. Under ordinary circumstances His Honor said that he should not hesitate for a moment to send a person to gao 1 for doing an act of this kind, but the circumstances were peculiar because the persons who had suffered by the accused's act (the girl and her father) both absolutely condone it, and the girl expresses her willingness to marry accused, and he expresses his willingness to marry her. That would be the best conclusion to the whole matter.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8465, 15 June 1907, Page 6
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134"NOSE-BITING" CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8465, 15 June 1907, Page 6
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